Joran Van Der Sloot Sentencing: Dutchman Slapped With 28 Years For Murder Of Stephany Flores

A haggard and beaten-looking Joran van der Sloot was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison for the 2010 slaying of Peruvian business student Stephany Flores.

The 23-year-old Dutch native, who is equally infamous for his longtime association with the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, hung his head low as the Peruvian court clerk went over the timeline of events in the case.

After the charges were entered into record, van der Sloot listened stone-faced as his sentence was pronounced -- 28 years behind bars and $200,000 solace for civil reparations.

Credited with time served, van der Sloot's release date was set as June 10, 2038. Following his release, he will be expelled from the country, the court ordered.

"Losing the person that one loves most is not fair," the victim's father, Ricardo Flores, said to reporters at the courthouse. "On Monday, through our attorneys, we will be calling a press conference to let you know all the irregularities and all the things that have occurred during this trial [and] from the day this person has been arrested."

Earlier this week, van der Sloot avoided trial by pleading guilty to killing Flores.

"I am truly regretful for what I have done. I feel very bad," he said.

That confession apparently had little impact on the three-judge panel, who sentenced him to only two years less than the 30-year max they could have imposed.

Van der Sloot was charged with first-degree murder and robbery in the May 30, 2010, slaying of Flores -- exactly five years after Holloway vanished. Flores was found dead in van der Sloot's hotel room in Lima on June 2, 2010.

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• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot attends the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Judges Victoria Montoya, center, Otilia Vargas, left, and Pilar Carbonel speak before the continuation of Joran van der Sloot's trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Men protest against Joran van der Sloot outside San Pedro prison where his murder trial is held in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. The sign at center reads in Spanish "Dutch assassin." (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, left, enters the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Police officers escort Joran Van der Sloot, second right, during a press conference at a police station in Lima, on June 5, 2010. The young Dutchman wanted in the murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, and who also remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, arrived in Peru's capital to face justice, after being handed over by Chilean police at the two countries' border. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, center, enters the courtroom for the start of his murder trial held at the San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6, 2012. Van der Sloot, 24, stands trial Friday for the 2010 murder of the 21-year-old Stephany Flores, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, front right, sits in court for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom as he waits for the continuation of his murder trial to start at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot was charged with killing and robbing Stephany Flores, a woman he met while gambling at a Peruvian casino. Flores was killed on May 30, 2010 -- exactly five years after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba. Van der Sloot has been linked, but never charged to her disappearance. (Domingo al Dia, America Television Channel / AP)

• Stephany Flores

  Stephany Flores in an undated photo from Peru's National Identitfication Registry. Her dead body was found June 2, 2010 in Joran van der Sloot's hotel room. (Registro Nacional de Identificacion y Estado Civil / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Ricardo Flores, father of slain Stephany Flores, arrives to San Jorge prison for the trial of Joran Van der Sloot in the Lurigancho area of Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6, 2012. Van der Sloot, 24, stands trial for the 2010 murder of the 21-year-old Flores, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  This image from security footage provided by the Lima police alledgedly shows Joran van der Sloot, left, and Stephany Flores as they enter his hotel room May 30, 2010. (Lima Police Handout / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  This image from security footage provided by the Lima police alledgedly shows Joran van der Sloot, as he leaves his hotel room May 30, 2010 -- the day Stefany Flores was allegedly killed in his hotel room. (Lima Police Handout / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  A shaman performs a ritual for the spiritual punishment of Joran van der Sloot, whose picture is posted on the wall, before van der Sloot's trial outside San Pedro prison. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Posters of Joran van der Sloot, right, and Stepahny Flores, left, sit among items from a shaman ritual outside San Pedro prison to punish the Dutchman's spirit. Van der Sloot, 24, is charged with killing 21-year-old Flores in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010, after the two left a casino together in the day's wee hours. The poster of Flores reads in Spanish "Stephany Flores asks for justice" and the poster of Van der Sloot reads "Spiritual punishment." (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Chilean authorities escort Joran van der Sloot, center, in Santiago, Chile on June 4, 2010. The Dutch man was detained after crossing the border from Peru, where authorities said he killed Stephany Flores. Van der Sloot was previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalie Holloway, but later released by Dutch authorities. (Aliosha Marquez, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Police show a photo of Joran van der Sloot at a news conference in Lima, on June 2, 2010. (AP)

• Peruvian Newspapers

  A man displays Peruvian newspapers with front pages allusive to the murder of 21-year-old Peruvian Stephany Flores in Lima. (Cris Bouroncle, AFP / Getty Images)

• Joran van der Sloot

  In this Dec. 7, 2007 photo, Joran van der Sloot, right, sits in a car with his father, Paulus Van Der Sloot, after Joran was released from custody near Oranjestad, Aruba. For all his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. (Pedro Famous Diaz, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  In this Sept. 6, 2005 photo, eighteen-year-old Joran van der Sloot, a resident of Aruba who had been held by police on the Caribbean island in connection with the disappearance of American tourist Natalee Holloway, exits Schiphol airport accompanied by unidentified relatives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For all his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. (Peter Dejong, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, center, the Dutch teen detained in connection with the disappearance of Alabama high school graduate Natalee Holloway on May 30, arrives to the hospital for DNA tests in Oranjestad, Aruba, on July 20, 2005. Investigators said that they planned to conduct DNA tests on blond hair attached to duct tape that was found along the coast to see if it came from Holloway - in a possible break to the six-week-old mystery. (Dino Tromp, AP)

• Natalee Holloway

  An undated photo of Natalee Holloway that was released by her family after her disappearance. (Family Photo / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, 20, takes a walk to the local supermarket near the house of his parents in Oranjestad, Aruba, in Dec. 2007. (Raul Henriquez, AFP/Getty Images)

• Joran van der Sloot looks over his shoulder as he leaves the courtroom after his murder trial was postponed at the San Jorge prison in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot asked for more time Friday to decide how to plead in his trial for the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman. His case was postponed until Jan. 11.

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  People protest against Joran van der Sloot as they hold up an enlarged picture of his police mug shot outside San Pedro prison where his murder trial is held in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot arrives to the courtroom for his sentence at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Members of the media take pictures of Joran van der Sloot, right, sitting in the courtroom at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

Holloway's body has never been found, and van der Sloot has never been charged in her disappearance. He was, however, indicted in the U.S. on charges that he extorted $25,000 from the Alabama teenager's parents. Prosecutors said that, in exchange for the money, he promised to reveal how Holloway died and the location of her body.

On Thursday, Alabama Probate Judge Alan King signed a declaration of death for Holloway. King announced the decision during a hearing in Birmingham. The court documents, which say that Natalee Holloway's possessions are worth less than $500, also named Joran van der Sloot as the "primary suspect" in her disappearance.

Earlier this week, Michael Griffith, senior partner at the International Legal Defense Counsel, told The Huffington Post that regardless of what van der Sloot was sentenced to in Peru, he would eventually be extradited to the U.S. for the alleged Holloway extortion plot and possibly her murder.

According to Griffith, the passive personality principle of international law allows a country to prosecute someone who has killed or injured an American citizen in a foreign country. In essence, jurisdiction is based on the nationality of the victim and not the location of the crime.

Griffith said that van der Sloot's alleged statements about Holloway, along with his previous confessions, are enough for U.S. authorities to bring a circumstantial murder case against him.

"There is no statute of limitations," Griffith said. "So even if he serves the max, he can still go on trial in the U.S."

Whether authorities in the U.S. will invoke the passive personality principle has yet to be decided.

Peruvian lawyer Giovanna Gismondi told In Session that van der Sloot will be eligible for parole after serving one third of his sentence and could be paroled in nine years.

Comments

[Honest Ed]

10:07 PM on 01/27/2013

Why would the US want to bring him here. He's doing 28 years in Peru. It's a waste of taxpayers hard earned money. Let him rot in Peruvian jails. Spend millions of precious taxpayer dollars to bring the cretan to this country and try him for extortion. Let him finish the 28 years in Peruvian jails. He may not last 28 years. Gross waste of taxpayers precious dollars. That is my opinion and the opinion of many other people.

[evolvedtg]

08:19 PM on 09/15/2012

There's only two things that I hate: People who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.

[kmeccat]

12:52 AM on 06/01/2012

This boy is truly a psychopath.
He killed the Flores girl, but I don't believe he killed Natalee--I think he sold her into the sex slave trade. Supposedly there was a sex recuiter seen on Aruba about that time...and Joran "recruited" Thai girls into the trade later, while in Holland.
He did say that he had sold Natalee into the sex trade- one of his many different scenarios as to what happened to Natalee. It may have also been the only time he told the truth.
That would explain why he didn't seem worried that Natalee's body would be found. Because she wasn't on the island.

[Njeanous]

06:02 PM on 06/04/2012

Quite possibly. Dad had something to do with either the cover up or the exchange for sale.

[foxgirl]

01:42 AM on 04/10/2012

Wow!? he killed 2 people and all he gets is 28 years? that's a bunch of BS.

[Angela0828]

10:47 PM on 03/19/2012

Wow!! That's great they give him 28 years, probably won't even serve it all! Awesome job! I love how murderers are set free to "enjoy" their life again. This is completely upsetting!

[Honest Ed]

10:10 PM on 01/27/2013

In the US in many states commit a murder and get life in prison. Then you are out in about 18 years with time off for good behaviour.Some states even less.

[Christine Miceli]

09:25 AM on 03/13/2013

Don't be too upset just try to think about how he is going to be someone BI--CH everyday of his miserable life!!!!

[teardowneaston]

05:59 PM on 03/03/2012

"I am truly regretful for what I have done. I feel very bad," he said.

he must be sorry, he did it twice

[Robert Cat]

09:08 PM on 03/03/2012

...that we know of.

[Kali03]

09:30 PM on 04/23/2012

I've had undergraduates in first semester Spanish manage to sound more regretful about forgetting their homework than this guy did when "apologizing" for his crimes.

And my students' Spanish sounds better, too.

[ms.understood]

08:52 PM on 02/29/2012

this guy looks like a monkey. i don't see what any girl/woman would see in him. i wouldn't even speak to him, much less give him a number.

[Kahauna]

02:07 PM on 03/08/2012

Monkeys don't murder.

[evolvedtg]

08:20 PM on 09/15/2012

Actually...... yeah, they kinda do.

[1reddog1]

08:05 PM on 01/24/2012

Which prison in Peru is he going to?

[Christine Miceli]

09:40 AM on 03/13/2013

Hope it's a nice prison where to the inmates will show him around and decide who will be the lucky one to make him their BI--CH for the rest of his miserable life!!!!!!!1

[GWB3]

12:15 PM on 01/23/2012

Could be paroled in 9 years? And also the extradition to the U.S. is for the extortion of $25,100 from Natalee's mom. The indictment filed with the U.S. District Court seeks the forfeiture of the $25,100 that had been paid to Van der Sloot.

I don't consider that justice and am hoping he serves the full 28 yrs.

[meanlady21]

12:50 PM on 01/22/2012

Maybe just maybe he will get snuffed out in prison.

[Christine Miceli]

11:51 AM on 03/13/2013

Or become someone's bi--ch!!!!!!

[Swinger Style]

02:40 PM on 01/21/2012

OMG!!!!!, just 28 years!!!! WTH.....Why not life? rather the DEATH!!! .....So he will get out for good behavior, on parole.... Kill again... love the justice system....What is wrong with today's jury? Let go back to Mid-Evil Times... Help us all....................

[beyondliberal]

04:46 PM on 05/18/2012

30 years is the maximum sentence for murder in Peru. He was given credit for the 2 years he's already served. They do not have the death penalty.
He pled guilty to Flores's murder and waived a jury trial.
It's all there in the article.

[WarriorLemming]

08:13 AM on 01/20/2012

Why not life.....

[masontganes]

04:39 AM on 01/20/2012

so in 28 yrs he will be cured of the evils that went through his mind to commit these acts.
AND being in prison actually rehabilitates anyone who goes to jail.
Getting raped in prison, living like an animal amongst the worst evil monsters in the world... all of that makes you a better person once you get out of jail.

Way to go legal system! Doin a great job as always.

[TRhett]

06:35 AM on 02/18/2012

I've often thought the same thing . . . after watching an incredibly scary documentary about Pelican Bay - a Supermax prison for the most dangerous (and crazy) criminals in the country. After showing the (unbelievably horrifying) inner workings of the place, and various incarnations of Satan housed therein, at the end they provided a very scary moment by noting that - - % (I can't remember the exact figure . . . but 1 is too many) of them will be rejoining society someday.

[Christine Miceli]

12:48 PM on 03/13/2013

I hhope he has a good time with the good old boys in cell block C and who will make him someones BI--CH everyday of his miserable life!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gregorio2012]

11:20 AM on 01/19/2012

What a joke, he murdered 2 women and only 28 years?

[sis14slf]

09:21 AM on 03/02/2012

yep. a 2fer

[gopster609]

07:58 AM on 01/19/2012

Finally...!!! This Human parasite, is going to pay for his crimes against humanity... I have absolutely zero percent doubt,that he is responsible for the murder of Ms.Flores,as I am of his guilt in Holloway disappearance & murder... He has been linked to a Human trafficing criminal enterprise in Thialand,that "provides" the kidnapping,relocation & the SALE of Human Beings...
There is no sentence long or severe enough, to properly avenge the suffering,he has caused to far too many people,and their families.....
I can only hope,that the prison system,where he will be spending the decade or so, is the most horrible & painful experience of his life,... With a 0% chance of rehabilitation,when he is released,he will go directly back to the lifestyle he knows... He is the Human Equivalent of Big Cats in the wild,the Cats kill to survive,where as his killing is spawned,by his mentally depraved psychosis...A few episodes of NGC's "Locked Up Abroad" show,will show you,all you need to know about committing crimes in foreign countries... The prison systems in US & Europe,are like Club Med,compared to many prison & justice systems throughout the world...

[masontganes]

04:36 AM on 01/20/2012

hes not going to pay at all.. 28yrs is nothing. he will be a monster on the loose when he gets out.

[gopster609]

09:25 AM on 01/23/2012

My only wish for this SCUM-BAG,is that the TV Series"Locked Up Abroad", is really the conditions & environment depicted on the show... I personally believe that he got away with Holloway murder,and would have walked from his latest murder,if not for a surveillance camera... I watch ALOT of I.D. channel,and there are plenty of truly sick & depraved individuals out ther in the free society... We somply cannot catch all of them,but this guy,is a SUB-HUMAN Psychopathic killer,of which NO AMOUNT of exculpatory evidence,would comvince me otherwise....... It is really poetic justice,that this hunk of "TOE-JAM",is going to spend the next 28 years of his wretched existence,in a prison system,that is considered to be one of the worst & most violent in the world... No amount of physical or emotional torture would be too much for my opinion... I will bet you (a friendly terms wager) that he will be killed,or committ suicide,within the next few years...We can only hope..

[Gregor53]

07:56 PM on 02/10/2012

Actually, he will be heading to the United States for court. Something about fraud in telling the Holloway parents he had information to sell for $25K. That is how he got some of the money for the poker in Peru. Hopefully, this cocky ba$73rd will never be free to harm someone again. Besides, I would imagine 28 hears in a Peru prison is not going to be pleasant for him. He may wish they had the death sentence.